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DR DARIUS VON GUETTNER



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Organization: Historical Studies
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
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Homepage: skype: darius.von.guettner
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Fax: +61 3 99236406
Level: 03
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Darius von Guettner completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of the forthcoming Poland and the Crusades in the Twelfth Century: The Idea of Holy War and its Reception in The Piast Monarchy. Darius contributed articles to “The Crusades. An Encyclopedia” (ed. Alan V. Murray), “Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle” (ed. Graeme Dunphy) and “The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages” (ed. Robert E. Bjork).
Darius research deals with aspects of religious warfare, crusading, military orders and identity in medieval cultural and religious history. He is currently writing a book provisionally entitled Prussia. A History of Ancient Civilisation (before 1300) and working on a first critical English edition of a key central European narrative sources, Master Vincentius’ Chronica Polonorum and Peter of Dusburg's Chronicle of the Prussian Land.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

Books

  • Poland and the Crusades in the Twelfth Century: The Idea of Holy War and its Reception in The Piast Monarchy (forthcoming).

Articles and chapters in books

  • "Holy War and Proto-Crusading: Justifying the Campaigns against Pomeranians and Prussians in the Twelfth Century," in A Storm Against the Infidel – Crusading in the Iberian Peninsula and the Baltic Region in the Central Middle Ages, eds. Torben K. Nielsen and Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt. Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming).
  • “The Idea of Crusade and the Piasts during the First and Second Crusades,” in The Church in the Monarchies of the Premyslids and the Piasts, ed. Józef Dobosz. Poznan: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza (forthcoming).
  • “Poland and the Second Crusade,” in The Second Crusade in Perspective, II: Eastern Europe and the March towards the Holy Land, eds. Jason T. Roche and Janus Møller Jensen. Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming).
  • “Recent Issues in the Polish Historiography of the Crusades,” in The Military Orders: On Land and by Sea, vol. 4, ed. Judi Upton-Ward, 13–21, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

Reviews

  • Review of Maria Starnawska, Miedzy Jerozolima a Lukowem. Zakony krzyzowe na ziemiach polskich w sredniowieczu [Between Jerusalem and Luków. Military Orders in Poland in the Middle Ages], Warsaw: DiG 2006, in The Crusades 7 (2008), 251-252.
  • Review of Mikolaj Gladysz, Zapomniani krzyzowcy. Polska wobec ruchu krucjatowego w XII-XIII wieku [Forgotten Crusaders: Poland and the Crusading Movement in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries], Warsaw: DiG 2002, in The Crusades 7 (2008), 235-236.
  • Review of Gesta principum Polonorum – The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles edited and translated by Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer, with a preface by Thomas Bisson. Central European Medieval Texts Series Volume III. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press, 2003, in Melbourne Historical Journal 32 (2004), 101-103.

Teaching areas

In addition to medieval history Darius teaches modern history subjects: Eighteenth Century France, Polish Partitions of 1172-1795, Revolutions (Russia, France, America, China) and Twentieth Century History at both a tertiary and senior secondary level.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Medieval History Piast Dynasty Australia, Poland, Germany, Russian Federation, Lithuania
Idea of Crusade Conversion, Mission, Christianity Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland
Wendish Crusade Conversion, Slavs, Christianity Australia, Germany, Denmark, Poland, France
Crusade, Idea of Crusade, Conversion, Christianity, Baltic, Military Orders Wends, Slavs, Prussia, Pomerania, Denmark Australia, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania
Papacy, North Central Europe, Middle Ages Roman Catholic Church Relations with North Central Europe Australia, Poland, Holy See, Germany, Lithuania
Gallus Anonymus, Gall Anonim, Cronicae et gesta ducum sive principum Polonorum Medieval narrative sources Australia, Poland, Germany
Master Vincentius, Mistrz Wincenty Kadlubek, Chronica Polonorum Medieval narrative sources Australia, Poland, Germany
Peter of Dusburg, Petrus de Dusburg, Chronicon terrae Prussiae Medieval narrative sources Australia, Poland, Germany
Christianisation Conversion, Church, Europe Australia, Poland, Germany, Denmark
Military Orders Knights Hospitaller, Knights Templar Holy See

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
English Speak, Read & Write
Russian Read and Write
Polish Read and Write
Italian Read and Write
German Read and Write
Latin Read and Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Ph.D. (Medieval History) University of Melbourne

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Crusades. Beyond a definition.


    Year: 2007
    Event name: The Polish Czech Medievalists Forum
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Polish Czech Medievalists Forum, Gniezno, Poland
    Page numbers: 81-98
    Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza(Poznan)
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Publications in 2006

Major Reference Works

  • The Crusades: An Encyclopedia:

    Gallus Anonymus


    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
    Publisher: ABC-CLIO(Oxford)
    Author(s):
  • The Crusades: An Encyclopedia:

    Henryk of Sandomierz


    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
    Publisher: ABC-CLIO(Oxford)
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  • The Crusades: An Encyclopedia:

    Mieszko III Stary


    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
    Publisher: ABC-CLIO(Oxford)
    Author(s):
    URL - open access http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/ebooks_pageformat/9781576078631/pg_xivV1.asp
    URL - open access http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/ebooks_pageformat/9781576078631/pg_825.asp
  • The Crusades: An Encyclopedia:Mateusz of Krakow
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
    Publisher: ABC-CLIO(Oxford)
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  • The Crusades: An Encyclopedia:Wincenty Kadlubek
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
    Publisher: ABC-CLIO(Oxford)
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Publications in 2005

Major Reference Works

  • Protestant Nobility in Poland. Index of families:Sources to Biography, Genealogy and Heraldry in Poland
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Protestant Nobility in Poland. Index of families
    Publisher: DiG(Warsaw)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • The Order of Malta in Poland : A Summary


    Year: 2001
    Book: Zakon Maltanski w Polsce
    Publisher: DiG Publishing
    Authors(s):
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